Published: March 25, 2005

The trustees of the College Board voted unanimously to continue using the PSAT as the qualifying exam for the National Merit Scholarship Program, despite criticism that the practice test for the SAT is unfair to the poor and racial minorities. A faculty committee at the University of California, the institution whose criticisms of the SAT in part prompted the College Board to revamp that test, has asked the university's campuses to reconsider their participation in the scholarship program.